It has been fun watching Florida’s “chemtrails” conspiracy theorists get a taste of the real world.
Florida’s multi-pronged attack on science and responsible public policy has taken many forms. The state has negligently bad-mouthed life-saving vaccines and made it illegal for municipalities to fluoridate their drinking water.
And then there’s “chemtrails”, the imaginary poisoning of the public by mysterious “theys” who are raining heavy metals down on us in some secret plot to dim the sun, weaponize the weather and kill us all.
Twisting the benign common appearance of water vapor trails from aircraft into a nefarious weather modification plot used to be the sole province of America’s fringiest crackpots.
People such as Alex Jones at Infowars have been claiming for years that Americans